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Unpacking Limited Liability: Direct And Vicarious Liability Of Corporate Participants For Torts Of The Enterprise, Robert B. Thompson
Unpacking Limited Liability: Direct And Vicarious Liability Of Corporate Participants For Torts Of The Enterprise, Robert B. Thompson
Vanderbilt Law Review
The corporate form limits the liability of shareholders and other participants arising from the enterprise. This broad insulation shields corporate participants not only from vicarious liability for the acts of others, but even from liability for some of their own acts taken in the corporate name. The liability that is avoided does not disap- pear into a black hole; it falls onto another person. If the liability is shifted to a tort victim, the use of the corporate form seems particularly troublesome, permitting the enterprise to externalize part of the cost of doing business. This limitation seems inconsistent with the …
The Lemonade Stand: Feminist And Other Reflections On The Limited Liability Of Corporate Shareholders, Theresa A. Gabaldon
The Lemonade Stand: Feminist And Other Reflections On The Limited Liability Of Corporate Shareholders, Theresa A. Gabaldon
Vanderbilt Law Review
The sultriness that was summer in D.C. blanketed the pedestrians returning to Capitol Hill. Trickling toward home through air that passively resisted, I almost overlooked a shape emerging from the haze of my own street. It might have been some atmospherically-induced apparition; rather, there, in the 1990s, in front of a well-kept urban rowhouse with door adorned by yuppie wreath, sat an immaculate child, seraphically presiding over a linen-covered table bearing a pitcher made of Tupperware. His neatly lettered sign, presumably prepared by an invisible caregiver in endorsement of his enterprise, read "Lemonade - 50 Cents."
The little boy with …
When Will The Corporate Form Save Taxes?, Richard L. Strecker
When Will The Corporate Form Save Taxes?, Richard L. Strecker
Vanderbilt Law Review
While major emphasis will be placed upon the tax considerations involved in answering the question posed by the title, the broader problem is aptly stated in the familiar phrase, "Choice of Business Form."' It is not possible to consider this problem realistically without taking into account the context of the business and private law considerations which must enter into the decision, and may indeed be controlling over the tax factors. Therefore, the question, "When Will the Corporate Form Save Taxes?" will be discussed in the light of the full legal and business milieu.